What a oversea's Chinese should know what's still in someboby's mind.

And they have to be stopped. Thanks to 80-20 for the information.
Can you face your children, if the following radio conversation about YOU occurs in your hometown? On 101.5 FM in NJ, the following conversation took place. Two guys, Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, were spreading anti-AsAm sentiment centered upon a Korean-Am political candidate running for office in Edison, NJ. Result? A listener called in (capitalization our own):

Something outrageous happened on April 25th at 101.5 FM in NJ, as you
might have already heard.

Caller: Hi, I love you
Carton: Thank you.
Caller: You just said it all, the last couple of...callers, I guess
they don't know that they live in America & WE'RE BEING OVERRUN.
I had just moved out of Edison because of what has happened in the
past 10 years... ORIENTALS ARE ALL ALONG, THE WHOLE
COMPLETE ROUTE 27 AND INDIANS HAVE TAKEN OVER
EDISON IN NORTH AND ALL OVER.
Carton: DAMN ORIENTALS AND INDIANS.
Caller: I..I moved out..36 years I've lived in Edison
Carton: And what was the biggest problem you had with the
Orientals and the Indians ?
Caller: I can't handle them! THERE'S NO AM. PEOPLE ANYMORE.
Carton: Eh..
Caller: THEY ARE SHOVING US THE HELL OUT!
Carton: It's like you're a foreigner in your own country isn't it?
Caller: You go to own store and you can't even see American people,
you don't see our own kids, American kids, working in stores anymore...
Carton: Like the next time you see an American, you think you'll
probably hug him or high five him or something?
Caller: Oh, that's why where I moved too, that's all I have, thank
God for now anyways.
Carton: YEAH I'M WITH YOU... SHARON, WE'RE JUST THE
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, & ai appreciate your call.
Caller: Keep up the good work.
Carton: All right, you got it baby... I think the quote was DAMN
ORIENTALS AND INDIANS.* "





Voice A: "Would you really vote for someone named Jun Choi?...
No ...foreign group should ever dictate the outcome of an American
election... I don't care if the Chinese (Choi happened to be a
Korean Am.) population in Edison has quadrupled, ...Chinese
should never dictate an election, Americans should."
Voice B: "Americans should, exactly."
More similar talk followed.
Voice A talking to a caller: "You got it baby. ...the quote was Damn
Orientals & Indians. "

Those were the voices of Craig Carton and Ray Rossi who called
themselves "Jersey Guys on 101.5 FM. The entire broadcast was
actually more outrageous than the brief quotes. For a transcript of
the show, go http://www.80-20initiative.net/jerseyguys.pdf.

Carton and Rossi aren't just clowns. On May 12th, they hosted a
debate among Republican New Jersey gubernatorial candidates.
Thanks to the efforts of a New Jersey coalition of Asian American
groups, Robert Schroeder and Todd Caliguire withdrew.

However, the 5 others, including the front-runners, did attend. If
they see Carton and Rossi get away with making such
statements without consequence, might they infer that
Asian Americans are timid and therefore that our interests
can be brushed aside? If we can't stamp out small injustices, how
can we stamp out the big ones?

Send them a message by making Carton and Rossi pay. Hyundai (a
Korean automaker), Cingular Wireless, and Bank of America have
already withdrawn their sponsorships of 101.5 FM. Let's get more
sponsors to leave 101.5 FM. Send your protest to the remaining
BIG sponsors. Use your own words to say the following:

"Join Hyundai, Cingular Wireless and Bank of America in withdrawing
sponsorship from 101.5 FM New Jersey for their blatant racism.
Otherwise, we will stop buying your products."

TAKE ACTION NOW! Send your email to:

Verizon Communications
Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chair and CEO, Ivan.g.seidenberg@verizon.com
Dennis Strigl, President, StrigDe@HQ.verizonwireless.com

Comcast
Brian L. Roberts, CEO and Chair, Brian_roberts@comcast.com
Stephen B. Burke, President, steve_burke@cable.comcast.com

Dishnetwork
Charles Ergen, Chairman, Charlie.ergen@echostar.com
Michael Kelly, Exec. VP, executivecustomerservice@echostar.com

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Is she smiling or....crying?

She had sex with her 12-year-old student; She gave birth to 2 kids of theirs; She was accused for raping and served 7 years in prison. Now she is getting married with the grown-up. Will she divorce him in the future....? one heck of story, isn't it???!!!

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EastSouthWestNorth: a wonderland of mine

Today I link two fascinating articles about the blogger's family history (here) and the contents of Japanese new textbooks (translated both in Chinese and English)(here)

And I salute to the creator of EastSouthWestNorth, Roland Soong.
According to the materials that I gathered from internet, Dr. Roland Soong had worked in NYC for some time before he returned HongKong in 2003. He works for a media company now and in his earlier 50s probably. He was and most probably still is an active track runner in his spare time.

The photo was taked when he was with NYC central park track club and he was club's respectable webmaster.

Roland Soong was recently on (The Standard)

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China goes undercover to sway opinion on Internet

Funny enough, it's said that GOP is doing the same thing in US.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.

China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising.

A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said.

Their job was to defend the government when negative comments appeared on Internet bulletin boards and chatrooms, the weekly quoted local officials as saying.

Suqian city's propaganda department recruited the commentators from among government officials, the weekly said, adding that they must "understand (government) policies, be versed in (political) theories and be politically reliable."

"They will guide public opinion as ordinary netizens. This is both important and effective," Ma Zhichun, one of the recruited commentators, was quoted as saying.

Zhan Jiang, dean of journalism at China Youth University for Political Sciences, did not approve of Internet special forces writing anonymously on the Internet.

"It's okay if they voice their opinions on the government Web sites as officials, but it is suspicious if they do it this way," Zhan told Reuters. "It's not good for the natural expression of public opinion."

But city governments in at least three provinces were recruiting online commentators, the weekly said.

"We are not the first and won't be the last (to have online commentators). The whole nation is playing the same game," Ma was quoted as saying.

The Communist Party's top disciplinary and supervision body trained 127 officials for such jobs last year to "strengthen Internet propaganda on its anti-corruption undertaking," the weekly said.

Beijing has created a special Internet police force believed responsible for shutting down domestic sites posting politically unacceptable content, blocking some foreign news sites and jailing several people for their online postings.

In March, bulletin boards operated by the country's most prominent universities were blocked to off-campus Internet users as part of the campaign to strengthen ideological education of college students.

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

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Sophie Marceau wardrobe malfunction

" Sophie Marceau had one hell of a wardrobe malfunction at the premiere of "Where the Truth Lies" at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival."







See the best of Sophie Marceau

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